Russian Physicists Launch Campaign to Rebuild Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower and Power the World

“Tesla was right and we are ready to prove it!” So say the two Russian physicists who have just launched an Indiegogo campaign to rebuild Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower in Fall, 2014. Tesla believed that the tower could transmit power wirelessly but this was never definitively proven in his lifetime. If he was right, and after extensive study the team are convinced he was, the project could provide an efficient, worldwide energy transmission system that would distribute all the clean energy we can use.

That Tesla was a genius is undisputed even by his detractors, but more than 70 years after his death, he remains a polarizing figure. Leonid Plekhanov and Sergey Plekhanov have spent the last five years studying and modeling Tesla’s notes and patents for the tower and they are certain the project is viable with the use of modern materials and technology. As their Indiegogo page notes: “Nikola Tesla had left us a very detailed description of the design of his Magnifying Transmitter System and the physical principles of its operation. We are a group of modern-day physicists, trained in many areas related to the operation of his Worldwide Energy System. We’ve conducted a thorough scientific expertise of his works and came to the conclusion that Tesla was on the right track.”

The principle behind the current design is that we already have an unlimited source for all the energy we could need – the sun. A 100,000 square kilometer solar array in a nice, sunny desert somewhere could provide for all our global power needs. The problem lies in distributing that power, as current systems leak so much energy. Tesla’s proposed network of towers were designed to make use of the Earth’s own inherent conductivity, transmitting energy through the ground and the ionosphere with very little wastage. A detailed description of how a tower works can be found here.

While Tesla’s original tower on Long Island weighed in at 60 tons, the prototype the Plekhanovs plan to build will only weigh two tons due to advances in materials. Its Tesla coil will be about 20 meters long. The team are hoping to raise $800,000 to build their prototype via the Indiegogo campaign, which finishes up on July 25, 2014. They successfully raised $40,000 via crowdfunding last year for research and design work on the power source. A project timeline and budget are provided, and in the spirit of Tesla’s magnanimity, they pledge to make their results freely available online once the tower has been put into operation.

18 thoughts on “Russian Physicists Launch Campaign to Rebuild Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower and Power the World”

Building a tower for inductive/wireless transmission of energy over large distances is perhaps not the most efficient way to move large amounts of energy.. and I believe Tesla was aware of this.. however the truly useful part of this puzzle is grabbing the huge amounts of 'free energy' the Sun provides us at the Ionosphere.. I believe he had determined how to do this when they pulled his financial support and had the army tear down his towers -- in defense of the oil monopoly that still exists today.. using solar panels is a joke in that respect and will provide little power compared to Nikola's own work.. grow a pair guys and go for the real power -- get it from the ionosphere.. (See J.M.McCaney's weather book for details on how it can be done).. Nikola was on the verge of providing us all with basically free power.. can you imagine what a different world it would be not working for the bankers 40hr workweeks.. Ahh.. Nikola, we need you now more than ever..

Interesting how The Oatmeal Cartoonist Helps Raise $1 Million to Turn Old Nikola Tesla Lab Into a Museum, and I am wondering if this Russian team of scientists will get enough financial support for constructing real working Tesla tower?
In Serbia there is action going on many years to collect money and build tourist like monument in form of Tesla's tower -non operational in sense as Tesla wanted, and I am sure they would not give money to this group which is working to make real Tesla tower.Museums and monuments are not danger to change the world from bottom , but real Tesla tower maybe would do it..I am afraid that even if Tesla himself would be with them the same destiny may repeat like 120 years ago.
I am sorry to be pessimist...but I would like so much that this scientific group will succeed.

Listen you two if you see this, the naysayers will put up an abundance of crap but you must not listen to these men. Most of them have lived out what they believe to be their 'glory days' and relish in being the trolls of the earth. They have wasted their lives on capitalism and wish everybody to be brought down how they are being brought down/ already been brought down. Lead the naysayers to a better future and watch the opinions change

"Truth seeker" and David McKale should be ashamed of yourselves for the negativity. If these kids get a shot at helping humanity what is $10-$20 anyways? I bet you are both very unhappy humans.
These kids will get a lot of heat from naysayers and oil companies if their progress is noticeable, they may even fail, but at least they are trying and if they can get the attention of some millionaire or other scientists we may have a chance of seeing this working in our lifetime.

Looks like a (Russian) scam to me! I'm a physicist and somewhat of an expert on the work of Tesla. Who vets these projects? Lots of people could get hurt real bad, while these two "hustlers" enjoy themselves on a beach somewhere, joking about how stupid and gullible Americans are.

Hope the Russian scientist use 2 main factors Which Tesla used in his original coils. 1 The primary and secondary coils must weigh exactly the same, 2 The design of the coil must be based on natural geometry. When this is done the secondary coil will block 100% of the current flow leaving 100% pure voltage impulses. This is needed to create the longitudinal light waves Tesla use to talk about, which are meant to be 99% efficient. Its only possible to transmit electricity wireless by using these far more efficient longitudinal electromagnetic waves. Today's Tesla coils do not use these factors and only emit Transverse electromagnetic waves, like radio and microwaves, and also produce electric arcing.

The right person could place this project on the Online "KickStarter Campaign" and raise millions in a month as it goes viral.
God have mercy on them...but sadly, their biggest problem will likely be attracting every single Energy Corporation (Oil, Coal, Nat-Gas, Solar, Wind, Wave.......) AGAINST THEM! They will ALL be lobbing Obama to send the CIA-Drones to destroy this "Grave & Aggressive Threat To All Liberty, Freedom & Humanity." (sarcasm) FAR to many $$$Trillions$$$ to be Lost in Corp $profit$ for this to fly unmolested. Lord have mercy.

"The problem lies in distributing that power, as current systems leak so much energy."
Not so if we have solar on site, on our homes' rooftops and from local solar "farms".
The problem is only in the minds and pockets of the industrialists who want to make us think there is no way. What they are trying to do is maintain their control over power. That is the real problem to them - how to industrialize and centralize solar energy.